Taste of Cyn

Gardening – Good Soil Rarely Just Happens

By Cynthia Sax on May 7, 2024

I was chatting with a neighbor and he was talking about how terrible his soil is and how he wishes he had good soil like we do.

He COULD easily have good soil like we do. He could have BETTER soil. He has more trees and that gives him more leaves to mulch with.

But he doesn’t use those leaves. He doesn’t spread them over the garden as mulch. Or create leaf mold with them. He bags the leaves and the city picks them up for THEIR composting program.

He doesn’t compost. And he doesn’t buy compost. None of that good stuff is sprinkled over his yard.

He certainly doesn’t get bags of used coffee grounds from the coffee shops and sprinkle THAT over his year.

He also bags his grass after he has cut it. He doesn’t leave it on the ground as free fertilizer.

His yard is extremely neat. But his soil sucks. And this is starting to impact his grass and other plants. They are being starved of nutrients and stressed. His soil also doesn’t hold much moisture. When the heat of the summer comes, the plants will likely die.

Good soil doesn’t take much work. It certainly takes less work than what he’s doing to keep his yard his version of tidy. But it doesn’t merely happen.

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